Dear Readers,

Saturday, September 08, 2007

Time for more self-promotion: I wrote the end-piece in this season's Bitch magazine, and it's a brief history of Austen-mania in the last few decades. Writing it gave me the awesomely rad opportunity to combine three of my greatest passions: Jane Austen, feminism, and being cheeky about pop culture.

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The Egalitarian Bookworm

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!—When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."-Caroline Bingley

Jane

"Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all."-- Austen on Northanger Abbey's Catherine Morland

More Jane

"I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma. She will never submit to anything requiring industry and patience and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding."--Mr. Knightley on Emma